In these especially difficult, but also interesting times we are living through, astrology has many tools and tips to provide explanation, perspective, reassurance and guidance on how to relate to crisis, understand its roots and form a vision for our own actions and adjustment to the situation. 

The Lunar Nodes (also known in the Eastern tradition as Rahu and Ketu) and their changing (transiting) positions over time are one of the greatest markers of the short-term orientation of society and the main themes of balance and imbalance in the world that we have to deal with as a group. They refer to the contagious and controversial issues which lie at the core of what people argue about and politics is focused on.

Currently the North Node is in Gemini and the South Node in its opposite sign of Sagittarius. This polarity of energies sets the topics of the day in…